St. Louis Half Marathon

I recently ran the Go! St. Louis half marathon. It was super fun, as usual! I ran with my training partner Sue (she really has to hold back to run with me, but it's more fun together). It started out really cold in the morning, so I kept my long sleeve Go! performance T on until about mile 11 or 12. The sun finally warmed me up at that point. Sue's parents came down from Iowa to watch her race...well, see her for 5 seconds as we ran by! They took pix and chatted with her for a few seconds. I ran on and she had NO PROBLEM catching up with me. I felt kinda wonky and nauseated at the end, but we sat on a bench and ate and i quickly recovered. It's great that I can recover in a couple hours after a half marathon now. I look back on my first half marathon and remember how I could barely get to the car and could NOT drive! Afterwards, I went out to eat with some friends afterwards to celebrate my accomplishment. My time has not improved. I'm still do the same time as in 2006. So now Sue and I are doing a 6 month training regimen to get my times a little faster. We are doing interval/speedwork one day a week (it's killing me!!!), tempo runs, easy runs and long runs. I really hope the speedwork improves my times...It BETTER! :)

Placed Again!

The Comtrea 5k was this weekend and I went to defend my title. I was hoping for first in my age group, but due to slacking on training of late, I only got a silver medal. But that was fun too! It's such a nice race. Everyone was so nice, and even thanked me when I handed them Roll on the River reg forms! They have lots of good shwag too! It was a beautiful, sunny, cool morning...perfect for a race!